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Violence as squatters evicted from £3m home

Published in Monday April 2nd, 2012 In In the media

April 1st, 2012 Around 20 officers from Avon and Somerset Police entered the Clifton Wood House in Bristol following reports of a late night party. They left the property at 5am but returned around two hours later with six riot vans as they stormed the 18th century mansion. Officers in full riot gear then carried […]

Eviction numbers reach new high in Spain

Published in Monday April 2nd, 2012 In In the media

March 31st, 2012 The number of people being evicted from their homes in Spain has jumped to a new record, with the judges granting embargos against 58,200 families last year, 22% more than in 2010. The numbers have put the matter at the centre of the political debate, and the Government has brought out ‘a […]

Tribal members evicted for oil field development

Published in Monday April 2nd, 2012 In In the media

March 31st, 2012 NEW TOWN — Residents of a 45-lot mobile home park in New Town, many among the poorest members of the Three Affiliated Tribes, are being evicted and will be replaced by oil workers. Tribal leaders, who were offered a chance to buy the mobile home park, are working on a solution, but […]

Campesinos refusing to disappear: Guatemala’s Polochic Valley one year after the evictions

Published in Monday March 26th, 2012 In In the media

March 26th, 2012 Written by Tristan Call, Guatemala Solidarity Project Juan lived in the village of Paraná until August, when for the second time in six months the private security forces of an international sugar company reduced his home to ashes and tilled his crops under to plant sugarcane. Now he lives across the road […]

Exclusion of homeless people in Japan

Published in Wednesday March 21st, 2012 In Social movement news

(Português) March 7th, 2012 Every promise has been broken. The eviction of homeless persons from Tatekawa River Bed Park (Tatekawa-Kasenjiki Park) here in Tokyo’s Koto Ward was grounded in deceit and discrimination. In just the past few months, the park’s 60 residents have had to face a number of brutal evictions for the sake of […]

Roma families at immediate risk of eviction in Serbia

Published in Tuesday March 20th, 2012 In Social movement news

Around 1500 Roma people are at risk of being forcibly evicted from their homes in Belvil, an informal settlement in Belgrade, Serbia’s capital, at any time from 19 March. They have not been given information about resettlement and may be resettled in inadequate conditions or left homeless.

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Cartoons made to picture sports mega-events impacts on host cities

Published in Monday February 6th, 2012

The work of cartoonists and artists on the impacts of sports mega-events on the host cities.

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Pictures of forced evictions in mega-events

Published in Monday February 6th, 2012

Photos of evicted communities and images related to forced evictions as a result from the host cities’ projects for mega-events like the World Cup and Olympics.

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As Police Invade Another Favela, Brazil Vents Fury

Published in Wednesday February 1st, 2012 In In the media

As many of the homemade videos posted on YouTube show, the invasion of the Pinheirinho favela by some 1,800 police in riot gear — throwing tear-gas bombs and firing rubber bullets — left residents frightened, furious and homeless.

Brazil: UN housing expert urges authorities to suspend Pinheirinho evictions

Published in Monday January 30th, 2012 In News

GENEVA – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Raquel Rolnik, on Friday called on Brazilian authorities to find a peaceful and appropriate solution, including housing alternatives, for those evicted this week from the Pinheirinho settlement in São Jose dos Campos city, São Paulo.

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